Klaus Luig

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Klaus Luig (born September 11, 1935 in Krefeld ) is a German legal historian and civil law scholar .

Klaus Luig graduated from high school in Krefeld in 1955. He studied law from 1955 to 1959 at the Universities of Göttingen and Vienna . He passed the first state examination in 1959 at the Higher Regional Court of Celle and the second state examination in 1964 in Düsseldorf. At the University of Göttingen he received his doctorate in 1963 under Franz Wieacker with a thesis on the history of the doctrine of assignments. From 1965 to 1979 he was a consultant at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main. There he played a major role in the creation of the handbook of sources and literature of recent European private law history. His habilitation took place in 1978 atHelmut Coing in Frankfurt am Main with a paper on the Usus modernus . Luig taught from 1979 to 1984 as a full professor for civil law, Roman law and modern history of private law at the University of Passau . From 1984 to 2000, Luig held the chair for civil law, Roman law and recent history of private law at the University of Cologne . From 1997 to 1999 he was Dean of the Faculty of Law there.

Luig has been a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences since 1990 . From 1994 to 2002 he was a specialist reviewer for the German Research Foundation in the field of legal history. His main research interests are the history of private law, Roman law, natural law and the persecution of Jews. He published well over 300 publications. Since 1974 he has been co-editor of the newly founded journal for historical research . The editors of the journal opted for a new periodization model. The late Middle Ages were removed from traditional Medieval studies and connected with the early modern period. The journal for historical research developed into the leading German specialist journal for the late Middle Ages and early modern times .

Luig is married and has three daughters.

Fonts

  • ... because he is not of Aryan descent. Jewish lawyers in Cologne during the Nazi era. Schmidt, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-504-01012-6 .
  • Roman law, natural law, national law (= Bibliotheca eruditorum. International Library of Science. Vol. 22). Keip, Goldbach 1998, ISBN 3-8051-0295-X .
  • On the history of the doctrine of assignment (= research on the recent history of private law. Vol. 10). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 1966 (at the same time: Göttingen, University, dissertation, 1963).

literature

  • Matthias Armgardt , Tilman Repgen (ed.): Natural law in antiquity and early modern times. Symposium on the occasion of Klaus Luig's 75th birthday. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2014, ISBN 3-16-153401-8 .
  • Christoph Becker : Klaus Luig on his 80th birthday. In: JuristenZeitung 18/2015, p. 887.
  • Hans-Peter Haferkamp , Tilman Repgen (eds.): How pandectistic was pandectism? Symposium on the occasion of Klaus Luig's 80th birthday on September 11, 2015. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2017, ISBN 3-16-155070-6 .
  • Hans-Peter Haferkamp, ​​Tilman Repgen (ed.): Usus modernus pandectarum. Roman law, German law and natural law in the early modern period. Klaus Luig on his 70th birthday (= legal historical writings. Vol. 24). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-23606-9 .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Bernd Schneidmüller : Consensus - Territorialization - Self-interest. How to deal with late medieval history. In: Frühmittelalterliche Studien Vol. 39 (2005), pp. 225–246, here: p. 239.
personal data
SURNAME Luig, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld